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title: Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she h… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she has changed so many times that day. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 14

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Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she has changed so many times that day.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** say, be, change · **To what, where:** little girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:14
# text = Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she has changed so many times that day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Alice | a little girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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